Why do I get the feeling that MS is building it's own Magic Lantern/Carnivore type thing. This is the app that I'm really scared of.
MSN tracks our shopping, email, surfing, and chatting. Now they are going to track our TV watching habits. I don't know whether to throw the Ultimate TV out the window or just give up and just start send Redmond my stool samples.
I totally agree with the idea that separate services receive separate ports. This makes a lot of sense for security, in that you can track excatly what SOAP requests are being made to your servers and allows you to shut them off if necessary. Going over Port 80 makes it virtually impossible for a company to disable a SOAP service from the firewall without expensive packet inspection at the firewall. The drawback that I can see with not going over port 80 is trying to get the Networking group to punch a hole in the firewall for that port. A separate port also makes things more secure in that if you want to use SOAP internally to your network, you don't allow other people to easily send SOAP requests from the external network. We use CORBA at my company and we don't open the ports to the open internet, but we do keep them open on internal firewalls. If hackers knew that we had CORBA servers, they could inspect what services we had and possibly do malicious harm.
The Linux community could really take advantage of this opportunity to score with a killer app for businesses, a HP 3000 Emulator. I know that my company would love to migrate to all of their HP 3000 programs to another solution where they would still have rock-solid reliability and now have commodity hardware prices. This could bring about a true business need for Linux support services and basically bring the motherlode of cash for Linux programmers.
Just think of it, there are thousands of big companies using the HP3000 looking for a solution over the next 5 years (when HP ends support). HP will probably try some god-awful ports to the 9000 series, but if it's not broke, just emulate it. After all, millions of man hours have been invested in getting those programs to handle mission-critical applications.
When someone writes this, let me know... my company has a large pile of cash ready for them.
Since the CNN site is getting hammered (Don't they ever learn?) Here's the text:
American Airlines jet crashes in New York
November 12, 2001 Posted: 9:54 AM EST (1454 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- An American Airlines jet crashed Monday in the New York City borough of Queens.
CNN confirmed the plane was American Airlines Flight 587 from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The plane was an Airbus A-300. American Airlines did not immediately release the number of passengers on the flight.
A New York police spokesman said the plane crashed in the Rockaways section of Queens. At least four houses were on fire, and a huge plume of smoke could be seen rising from the site.
All three New York City-area airports -- Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark -- closed after the crash, according to CNN affiliate WCBS in New York. Mayor Rudy Giuliani declared a Level One emergency, mobilizing all available police, fire and emergency personnel.
I beleive Mosfet has a right to sue FT for making downloads of FTLiquid available even though they haven't paid him for his work. He should still retain the copyrights to his work and be able to control the distribution of it. Or does that not play in the Open source framework?
It's a shame that a decent dude lost his apartment, had a sore ass, and has to deal with a loser CEO.
Good luck Mosfet, maybe we should start a charity fund.
This is a sad case of an open source software developer getting burned by companies promising large and delivering little. It just shows how important it is to keep control of your intellectual property until the checks roll in.
Unless the Government can't stop drooling over all this pooled data and just uses a backdoor to open the data up. I'd really trust it if I got to choose the encryption scheme for my own data i.e. No DES, RSA, maybe some 2048 bit key deal. However that probably wouldn't work and they'd just encrypt it so their own people can't see it easily. Kinda like how most online vendors should encrypt your CC info.
Really I'm worried that the FBI will just be sitting in the server room with a link to some NSA computers and just reading my list of adult book purchases. Great, my mom works for the FBI too...
Great, two tech companies duke it out to provide the infrastructure to Internet services. We can either get worked by Sun, at least that will be Unix based. Or Micro$oft and we'll just get worked. With the latest developments of XP's release (the beast is loose, the 7 seals have been broken!!) it seems M$ will be able to readily herd the masses of tech incompetent into Passport and.Net services.
I just hope that MONO can save our souls and our bank accounts. Free open-source services can only succeed with a large enough base of users to dictate to the businesses that will provide the services. I know we spend teh money on tech stuff and/.ers are a lot of early adopters, but do we spend enough cash to make it work? Hope so.
Dear Santa,
I've been a real good gEek this year. I wrote several white-hat worms to fix IIS holes. I defended IP rights in the Linux kernel. I also mirrored the LOTR trailer.
Could I please get just one little old Starcat Server from Sun? Please make sure it is the 106 processor version with 576 GB of RAM.
I will be real good and use my idle time for SETI.
Your pal,
digital_freedom
P.S. Chocolate chip cookies are your favorite right?
You sound like you are on the right track. Move those ISO images to cache on another box and set up SAMBA for them. Now your users can have access to those files.
Now with your Zservers, you can either send them back to the manufacturer citing the fact that they are illegally manufactured, request source code to fix it yourself (Good luck), or just keep hacking at it yourself (My approach).
The real problem with the FSF is that more holders of copylefts need to transfer some power of attorney to the FSF so that the GPL can be enforced in these cases. As it is, the FSF can only be a watchdog (which it does well) and not the pit bull of open source we want it to be. If the holders of copylefts don't care that their work is being commercialized and closed without their permission, the Open Source movement becomes a grab bag of free technology to be made unfree by the corporations.
Very interesting, this may enable for people in thrid world countries to have access to the best surgeons in the world. It may also allow operations on the ISS at some point. I'd expect to see developments where surgeons from multiple sites coordinate work on a single patient at a remote site.
A crisis is striking our nation, not only that which has struck New York and DC, but also one that strikes every citizen of this great nation. Jeffersonand the founding fathers created this nation with every citizen given the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
As Katz mentioned, the terrorist took attacked the right to life of those in the WTC, the Pentagon, and those in the planes. We cannot allow this attack on our own rights to allow the government to inflict injustice upon the nation, while seeking justice for those lost. The lowering of wiretap restrictions does not bode well for liberty. You must consider that these restrictions were put in place to protect individual civil liberties from a sometimes corrupt and over-zealous police force. When we remove these checks and balances we invite tyranny. Without court oversight, how long until the police force can use the information they tap against not only the terrorist forces, but those who would seek to reinstate the rigorous wiretap restrictions. A few well placed leaks and recorded phone conversations could affect many representatives votes and campaign donors' contributions (Yes I'm talking about blackmail).
I miss that sense of safety. I miss feeling that terrorist attacks were something that happened in the West Bank and third-world nations. We have all been shocked and forced into a state of war. I know that after this war is over and we are victorious, I want that sense of safety to be returned. Knowing that wiretaps can be anywhere, my calls are being recorded, my emails being parsed by Carnivore, and my face and location being scanned by hidden cameras, how can I feel safe again?
I wholeheartedly believe that the acts of September 11 demand justice and retribution. But as Jefferson said, "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?" We must sacrifice lives to remind us of and defend our liberties. To those who died I thank them for reminding us of this important fact. I believe that as they now see a nation more united than ever before not only in seeking justice but also cogniscent of our freedoms that they know their lives were not lost in vain, but contributed to the continuing health of our nation. We must each defend our liberty from any who might threaten it, whether it be Osama Bin Laden, terrorists, or our own government.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
-- Thomas Jefferson, Nov. 13, 1787
I've heard of Big Purple People Eaters and now
we can be Big Purple Potato Eaters.
Or according to this recipe:
Purple People Eater
3/4 oz rum
1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz Triple Sec
1/2 oz blue curacao
1 oz sour mix
7-Up
splash grenadine
Combine all liquors and sour mix in a cocktail shaker with cracked ice and shake well. Pour into a collins glass, fill with 7-Up and top with grenadine.
Wow, with 1.6 Ghz ready in a few months and a possible version at 2.0 Ghz Apple might be able to drop the PPC Mhz is not a Intel Mhz campaign that they were doing a while ago. They could drop Mhz numbers left and right and even compete with AMD's numbers. This might be what the PPC and Apple Marketing needed to increase Apple market share and ensure that Apple survives. I'm drooling over the possibility that prices of the G4 will fall to "affordable" levels. These OSX boxes seem to make a nice unix web development box where you can do your flash and movie stuff too.
Also, if the RISC architecture lives up to itself, the 2 Ghz should be a LOT faster than the Intel 2Ghz. Hopefully the FPU is a lot better too.
I like how the last comparison of Linux/IFL vs Exchange/Intel has no cost of support for the Linux part. Come on, last time I checked Linux admins weren't working for free. Sure the tech support for the software is pretty much free due to the community, but someone has to set that stuff up and make sure it keeps working. Unless, Linux now supports itself through magic!! Oooh, I just think about adding 500 more mailboxes and they just appear... Yeah right. This article looks suspicious.
XML is not going to replace HTML and that's great because XML is better suited to data than display.
I have used XML on several projects not to send to Browsers to display, but to transfer data between disparate systems. Finally there is a way that two computers can exchange data & meta data without worrying about memory use, big/little endian, EDI formats, and character positions. XML is great in that almost everyone agrees to use it to transfer information. HTML is great for formatting display to a degree (PostScript people please don't flame me!;) ). I have worked with EDI formats before and it is a pain in the butt to set up message positions for all of your data and to work with nested lists of information. XML makes that so much easier and lets you use DTDs to enforce stuff. I also like the fact that XML was made to be read by a human being. We can actually look at the data file and tell what a field is by looking at the tag. This is why XML is going to be ubiquitous.
Don't expect it to be a browser language, it's just data. With nicely structured data you can use that to generate HTML, WML, anything...
The future of data transfer looks bright.
Someone didn't get the joke
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Parrot: For Real
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· Score: 5, Funny
Parrot was an April Fools' gag.
This is what happens when jokes go bad. I hope the/. editors consider this carefully next April. Otherwise we might have a story about Bill Gates & Bill Joy collaborating to produce a new proprietary rock-solid server GUI.
Interesting facts:
Previously, Lewin worked at IBM's research laboratory in Haifa, Israel, where he was a full-time research fellow and project leader while simultaneously completing two undergraduate degrees at the Technion.
Born in Denver, Colorado, and raised in Jerusalem, Lewin is an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, having served in the country's military for more than four years.
This may be a great thing for manned space flight and work in treacherous conditions. Imagine if the supply vehicles sent up to the ISS were unloaded of contents and then disassembled to provide raw material for use in case a part failed. They would have a 3-d fabricator on the station that they could use to manufacture many simple parts like rods, sheets, bolts, etc... It could make sending up supply ships much more efficient. Then after something breaks, you break it down to raw material for re-fabrication or for other tools.
NASA could keep breaking down the station and rebuilding it with its own raw material. Oooh borg-like. This could also be useful for some underwater stations/vessels and arctic or oil drilling where it is hard to get stuff shipped to people.
Then if they could just get replicators to replicate themselves...
Okay let's take the stickers off and put all of the same color on the center faces of each side. Then let's see how smart this robot is!
A human would either throw the cube out the window or just move the stickers back.
I wonder how Deep Blue would handle it if you pointed behind it and said, "Omigod, it's ENIAC". While its terminal is turned, you flip the board... I hope I can name that defensive move after myself.
seeing hot girls again , instead of your greasy cubicle mates?
keggers instead of the watercooler?
sounds pretty good when you aren't making 6 figures and your stock options are worth less than your used college textbook.
A lot of my friends who went to dot-coms and e-business pipe dreams are now going back to school for more. I guess you just try to do the last thing that made you happy. For a lot of us who were beaten in the dot com bust that means school. At least we'll have plenty of doctors and lawyers who can code too.
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Why do I get the feeling that MS is building it's own Magic Lantern/Carnivore type thing. This is the app that I'm really scared of.
MSN tracks our shopping, email, surfing, and chatting. Now they are going to track our TV watching habits. I don't know whether to throw the Ultimate TV out the window or just give up and just start send Redmond my stool samples.
Finally, I can put some cheaper memory into my Intel rig.
I totally agree with the idea that separate services receive separate ports. This makes a lot of sense for security, in that you can track excatly what SOAP requests are being made to your servers and allows you to shut them off if necessary. Going over Port 80 makes it virtually impossible for a company to disable a SOAP service from the firewall without expensive packet inspection at the firewall. The drawback that I can see with not going over port 80 is trying to get the Networking group to punch a hole in the firewall for that port. A separate port also makes things more secure in that if you want to use SOAP internally to your network, you don't allow other people to easily send SOAP requests from the external network. We use CORBA at my company and we don't open the ports to the open internet, but we do keep them open on internal firewalls. If hackers knew that we had CORBA servers, they could inspect what services we had and possibly do malicious harm.
Separate but equal is what I say.
The Linux community could really take advantage of this opportunity to score with a killer app for businesses, a HP 3000 Emulator. I know that my company would love to migrate to all of their HP 3000 programs to another solution where they would still have rock-solid reliability and now have commodity hardware prices. This could bring about a true business need for Linux support services and basically bring the motherlode of cash for Linux programmers.
Just think of it, there are thousands of big companies using the HP3000 looking for a solution over the next 5 years (when HP ends support). HP will probably try some god-awful ports to the 9000 series, but if it's not broke, just emulate it. After all, millions of man hours have been invested in getting those programs to handle mission-critical applications.
When someone writes this, let me know... my company has a large pile of cash ready for them.
Since the CNN site is getting hammered (Don't they ever learn?) Here's the text:
American Airlines jet crashes in New York
November 12, 2001 Posted: 9:54 AM EST (1454 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- An American Airlines jet crashed Monday in the New York City borough of Queens.
CNN confirmed the plane was American Airlines Flight 587 from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The plane was an Airbus A-300. American Airlines did not immediately release the number of passengers on the flight.
A New York police spokesman said the plane crashed in the Rockaways section of Queens. At least four houses were on fire, and a huge plume of smoke could be seen rising from the site.
All three New York City-area airports -- Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark -- closed after the crash, according to CNN affiliate WCBS in New York. Mayor Rudy Giuliani declared a Level One emergency, mobilizing all available police, fire and emergency personnel.
I beleive Mosfet has a right to sue FT for making downloads of FTLiquid available even though they haven't paid him for his work. He should still retain the copyrights to his work and be able to control the distribution of it. Or does that not play in the Open source framework?
It's a shame that a decent dude lost his apartment, had a sore ass, and has to deal with a loser CEO.
Good luck Mosfet, maybe we should start a charity fund.
This is a sad case of an open source software developer getting burned by companies promising large and delivering little. It just shows how important it is to keep control of your intellectual property until the checks roll in.
Unless the Government can't stop drooling over all this pooled data and just uses a backdoor to open the data up. I'd really trust it if I got to choose the encryption scheme for my own data i.e. No DES, RSA, maybe some 2048 bit key deal. However that probably wouldn't work and they'd just encrypt it so their own people can't see it easily. Kinda like how most online vendors should encrypt your CC info.
Really I'm worried that the FBI will just be sitting in the server room with a link to some NSA computers and just reading my list of adult book purchases. Great, my mom works for the FBI too...
Great, two tech companies duke it out to provide the infrastructure to Internet services. We can either get worked by Sun, at least that will be Unix based. Or Micro$oft and we'll just get worked. With the latest developments of XP's release (the beast is loose, the 7 seals have been broken!!) it seems M$ will be able to readily herd the masses of tech incompetent into Passport and .Net services.
/.ers are a lot of early adopters, but do we spend enough cash to make it work? Hope so.
I just hope that MONO can save our souls and our bank accounts. Free open-source services can only succeed with a large enough base of users to dictate to the businesses that will provide the services. I know we spend teh money on tech stuff and
Dear Santa,
I've been a real good gEek this year. I wrote several white-hat worms to fix IIS holes. I defended IP rights in the Linux kernel. I also mirrored the LOTR trailer.
Could I please get just one little old Starcat Server from Sun? Please make sure it is the 106 processor version with 576 GB of RAM.
I will be real good and use my idle time for SETI.
Your pal,
digital_freedom
P.S. Chocolate chip cookies are your favorite right?
You sound like you are on the right track. Move those ISO images to cache on another box and set up SAMBA for them. Now your users can have access to those files.
Now with your Zservers, you can either send them back to the manufacturer citing the fact that they are illegally manufactured, request source code to fix it yourself (Good luck), or just keep hacking at it yourself (My approach).
The real problem with the FSF is that more holders of copylefts need to transfer some power of attorney to the FSF so that the GPL can be enforced in these cases. As it is, the FSF can only be a watchdog (which it does well) and not the pit bull of open source we want it to be. If the holders of copylefts don't care that their work is being commercialized and closed without their permission, the Open Source movement becomes a grab bag of free technology to be made unfree by the corporations.
From the article:
"The (130-nanometer) process is ramping like a hose," said Frank Spindler, vice president of Intel's mobile products group.
What the hell does that mean? How does a hose ramp?!!
This must be the same guy who decided Pentium II mad sense.
I tried to explain to my history teacher that King Henry the VIII is the same as King Henry Jr. the VI. She didn't buy it.
The article refers to this article at Nature
Very interesting, this may enable for people in thrid world countries to have access to the best surgeons in the world. It may also allow operations on the ISS at some point. I'd expect to see developments where surgeons from multiple sites coordinate work on a single patient at a remote site.
A crisis is striking our nation, not only that which has struck New York and DC, but also one that strikes every citizen of this great nation. Jeffersonand the founding fathers created this nation with every citizen given the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
As Katz mentioned, the terrorist took attacked the right to life of those in the WTC, the Pentagon, and those in the planes. We cannot allow this attack on our own rights to allow the government to inflict injustice upon the nation, while seeking justice for those lost. The lowering of wiretap restrictions does not bode well for liberty. You must consider that these restrictions were put in place to protect individual civil liberties from a sometimes corrupt and over-zealous police force. When we remove these checks and balances we invite tyranny. Without court oversight, how long until the police force can use the information they tap against not only the terrorist forces, but those who would seek to reinstate the rigorous wiretap restrictions. A few well placed leaks and recorded phone conversations could affect many representatives votes and campaign donors' contributions (Yes I'm talking about blackmail).
I miss that sense of safety. I miss feeling that terrorist attacks were something that happened in the West Bank and third-world nations. We have all been shocked and forced into a state of war. I know that after this war is over and we are victorious, I want that sense of safety to be returned. Knowing that wiretaps can be anywhere, my calls are being recorded, my emails being parsed by Carnivore, and my face and location being scanned by hidden cameras, how can I feel safe again?
I wholeheartedly believe that the acts of September 11 demand justice and retribution. But as Jefferson said, "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?" We must sacrifice lives to remind us of and defend our liberties. To those who died I thank them for reminding us of this important fact. I believe that as they now see a nation more united than ever before not only in seeking justice but also cogniscent of our freedoms that they know their lives were not lost in vain, but contributed to the continuing health of our nation. We must each defend our liberty from any who might threaten it, whether it be Osama Bin Laden, terrorists, or our own government.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
-- Thomas Jefferson, Nov. 13, 1787
I've heard of Big Purple People Eaters and now
we can be Big Purple Potato Eaters.
Or according to this recipe:
Purple People Eater
3/4 oz rum
1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz Triple Sec
1/2 oz blue curacao
1 oz sour mix
7-Up
splash grenadine
Combine all liquors and sour mix in a cocktail shaker with cracked ice and shake well. Pour into a collins glass, fill with 7-Up and top with grenadine.
We can become Purple People Eater Drinkers!!!
Please don't say you can beowulf these...
Well thanks for the update, but I guess we don't need to show off our web-searching skills now to find the answer.
And I had google, dogpile, Lycos all up and ready to go.
Wow, with 1.6 Ghz ready in a few months and a possible version at 2.0 Ghz Apple might be able to drop the PPC Mhz is not a Intel Mhz campaign that they were doing a while ago. They could drop Mhz numbers left and right and even compete with AMD's numbers. This might be what the PPC and Apple Marketing needed to increase Apple market share and ensure that Apple survives. I'm drooling over the possibility that prices of the G4 will fall to "affordable" levels. These OSX boxes seem to make a nice unix web development box where you can do your flash and movie stuff too.
Also, if the RISC architecture lives up to itself, the 2 Ghz should be a LOT faster than the Intel 2Ghz. Hopefully the FPU is a lot better too.
I like how the last comparison of Linux/IFL vs Exchange/Intel has no cost of support for the Linux part. Come on, last time I checked Linux admins weren't working for free. Sure the tech support for the software is pretty much free due to the community, but someone has to set that stuff up and make sure it keeps working. Unless, Linux now supports itself through magic!! Oooh, I just think about adding 500 more mailboxes and they just appear... Yeah right. This article looks suspicious.
Here's some links to some good info & tutorials on XML
W3C School -- excellent
Anti-christ XML school -- MSDN site
Sun's Java/XML school
Crash Course in XML
Hope these help!
XML is not going to replace HTML and that's great because XML is better suited to data than display.
;) ). I have worked with EDI formats before and it is a pain in the butt to set up message positions for all of your data and to work with nested lists of information. XML makes that so much easier and lets you use DTDs to enforce stuff. I also like the fact that XML was made to be read by a human being. We can actually look at the data file and tell what a field is by looking at the tag. This is why XML is going to be ubiquitous.
I have used XML on several projects not to send to Browsers to display, but to transfer data between disparate systems. Finally there is a way that two computers can exchange data & meta data without worrying about memory use, big/little endian, EDI formats, and character positions. XML is great in that almost everyone agrees to use it to transfer information. HTML is great for formatting display to a degree (PostScript people please don't flame me!
Don't expect it to be a browser language, it's just data. With nicely structured data you can use that to generate HTML, WML, anything...
The future of data transfer looks bright.
Parrot was an April Fools' gag.
/. editors consider this carefully next April. Otherwise we might have a story about Bill Gates & Bill Joy collaborating to produce a new proprietary rock-solid server GUI.
This is what happens when jokes go bad. I hope the
Windows + Sun = Greenhouse
Sheesh... Then someone will implement it...
CNN article
Interesting facts:
Previously, Lewin worked at IBM's research laboratory in Haifa, Israel, where he was a full-time research fellow and project leader while simultaneously completing two undergraduate degrees at the Technion.
Born in Denver, Colorado, and raised in Jerusalem, Lewin is an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, having served in the country's military for more than four years.
He is survived by his wife and two sons.
Poor kids...
This may be a great thing for manned space flight and work in treacherous conditions. Imagine if the supply vehicles sent up to the ISS were unloaded of contents and then disassembled to provide raw material for use in case a part failed. They would have a 3-d fabricator on the station that they could use to manufacture many simple parts like rods, sheets, bolts, etc... It could make sending up supply ships much more efficient. Then after something breaks, you break it down to raw material for re-fabrication or for other tools.
NASA could keep breaking down the station and rebuilding it with its own raw material. Oooh borg-like. This could also be useful for some underwater stations/vessels and arctic or oil drilling where it is hard to get stuff shipped to people.
Then if they could just get replicators to replicate themselves...
Okay let's take the stickers off and put all of the same color on the center faces of each side. Then let's see how smart this robot is!
A human would either throw the cube out the window or just move the stickers back.
I wonder how Deep Blue would handle it if you pointed behind it and said, "Omigod, it's ENIAC". While its terminal is turned, you flip the board... I hope I can name that defensive move after myself.
seeing hot girls again , instead of your greasy cubicle mates?
keggers instead of the watercooler?
sounds pretty good when you aren't making 6 figures and your stock options are worth less than your used college textbook.
A lot of my friends who went to dot-coms and e-business pipe dreams are now going back to school for more. I guess you just try to do the last thing that made you happy. For a lot of us who were beaten in the dot com bust that means school. At least we'll have plenty of doctors and lawyers who can code too.